The First 48: Missing Persons

Detectives Selles Morris, Laura Skrip and Jim Corcoran team up to search for a straight "A" college student. They uncover surveillance footage that shows the 19-year-old sophomore walking toward the lakefront, then disappearing. Their around-the-clock search comes to a shocking conclusion. Then, Detectives Morris and Skrip pull double duty: Morris hunts down an alleged gang member who vanished after a drug deal goes bad, putting his own family in danger. Skrip has just minutes to save the life of a woman who threatens to jump from a bridge.

In the second-season opener, a young mother and her babies vanish, and their disappearance may be linked to that of a second missing mother and child.

Barbara Naklicki holds off a full two days before reporting the disappearance of her husband, Ed. The first clue is a dire one: Ed's work van has been found in a forest preserve on the city's edge. Next, Detective Bob Berent gets a strange phone call from a hotel on Michigan Avenue, Chicago's main shopping drag. The hotel reports a guest took a room three nights ago--and vanished.